Wastewater injection resulting from oil and gas production in Oklahoma caused a dramatic rise in seismic activity in the state between 2009 and 2015. But regulatory efforts to backfill some injection ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.

A flare burns off methane and other hydrocarbons as oil pumpjacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas. A large 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit West Texas on Friday, July 26, 2024. The U.S.

Damaging earthquakes that rocked West Texas in recent days were likely caused by oil and gas activity in an area that has weathered tremors for decades, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A ...

On August 16, 2012, residents of the tiny Dutch village of Huizinge were rattled by an inexplicably large 3.6 magnitude earthquake. Gas extraction in the nearby Groningen gas field, one of the largest ...

Earthquakes are often treated as acts of nature that strike without warning along famous plate boundaries, yet a growing body of evidence shows that human activity can also trigger damaging shaking.

West Texas earthquakes last month rattled Scurry County and surrounding areas. More than 100 were recorded within a week by the United States Geological Survey. The quakes were felt more than 200 ...